The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the other old rule, that the better man is COM
| monty the one who gets killed, remains I'M
| touched by the present case. The quarrel which
| led to the duel was caused by an insult cast by
| one of the combatauts upon a lady. 1t was the
| lady champion who fell
MADISON (Wis.) dispatch says; George o.
Neitge, an aged German, is in the city, and pre-
| sented an interesting case to the State Land
| Commissioner to-day. He claims that in 1874
| he pre-empted 100 acres of land in st. Croix
county, paying 20 the State 800 therefor. The
official records show this to be fact. Gov.
| Taylor afterward ignorantly patented the same
| land TO the North Wisconsin railway, now the
! Omaha company which elected Netge and put
him in jail for trespass. The railway station at
| Deer Park with 800 residents, is now located on
the land, the value of which is now over $780,
| 00O"
THE upper end of Manhattan Island, above
and at the sides of Central Park, is rapidly be-
coming the seat of a surprisingly beautiful resi-
dence district which puts Murray Hill to the
| blush. The great blocks are lined with dwell
| lngs, among which few are alike. Marble, gran
| tie, brick and terra Gotta, freestone and brown
| stone following one another in designs remarka-
| bic for their originality. Here and there are
! quarters where the houses are mansions, each
IN Its little framing of lawn. Money, taste and
| comfort reign in this new New York. The
| down town blocks of brown stone boxes seem
dreary when one returns to them.
SCHEMES for colonization in Mexico are com
| ing to the front. French company has &C
| quired grant of land in Chihuahua 60 miles
| long by g miles wide, on which colony of
French and Belgian emigrantS are to be settled.
A large body of land in the same State, adioin-
| ing New Mexico, has been secured by a Syndi-
| cate in which American capitalists are mostly
concerned and it is to be colonZed. town is
being laid out on this land adjoining the New
| Mexican town of Deming The international
| boundary there is an imaginary line, and so the
new town will be practically an extension into
| Mexico of the American town of Deming These
fl.ah @E hat
movement of American population, industry
| and capital into Mexico.
WAGNER's recently discovered symphony has
been played with great success in several
| foreign cities. 1t has been asserted that the
| last movement shows a falling OF in interest.
| According to the testimony of the critic of the
AJiqensetne Musk Zeitun9, this is not the case,
although the finale is conspicuous for humorous
| qualities, and is lighter in character than the
| first allegro. The same critic gives it as bis
opinion that no symphony of so great weight
| had ever before been produced by 19-year-old
| musician, and the fact is recalled that Herr
| Laube of Leipsic, when he heard the work at
| the Gewandhaus Concert in 1882, prophesied
| that the young and obscure composer would
| make his mark in the world The symphony
has been played also at Dresden and Cologne.
The statement is again made with great as
| surance that Senator Spooner will, as soon as
| Congress meets, take measures to secure
| cheaper gas for Washington. Cheap gas is
| good thing, but good gas is good deal better
| What the people of Washington most need is
| the latter article. Poor gas is dear at any
price, and a cheapening in price is sure to be
| followed by falling off in quality, so that the
cost of getting given amount OF light is
| always in danger of being increased instead of
| reduced. Let the honorable Senator first re-
| quire that the gas company shall use only first
| class coal in the manufacture of its socalled
| illuminating medium, and afterwrrd regulate
| the price on the basis of absolute cost OF pro
| duction and a fair interest on the capital
| actually invested in the companys plant
/ on its watered stock
MRS HErTY GREEN and c. P. Huntington
| have practically settled their differences in the
reorganization of the Houston and Texas Cen
| trail Railroad Company and the amended plan
| of reorganization will be made public next
week. The different interests have selected the
| Central Trust Company the trustee under
| the new plan and it will act as a re-organiza-
| ton committee of one instead of the present
| commttee of five, The details of this plan have
| been in dispute for months, and this result is
| compromise in which, however, Mrs. Green has
| carried her main pont-that the general or
| third mortgage bonds, of which she is a holder
to the extent of about S1,200,0O0 out of a total
| issue of S4,0O0,0U0, should have larger proper
| ton in the second mortgage bonds which it
| is proposed to issue under the reorganization
HERE is a curious anecdote of the two famous
sticks of NJ. de Lesseps' great friend, Moham-
med Said. That Prince, when he returned on
one occasion from England, sent for the canal
| cutter, and showed him two sticks one of which
| had been given him by NJ. de LeSSepS, the other
was a present from English Admiral. 1T
| often happens, said the Prince, that you talk
| to me about the canal in the hearing of people
who might retail our conversation at an mop
! perfume moment. | have therefore thought it
| best TO obviate this by carrying in my hand the
| English cane when want you not to say word
| about the canal. When, however, you see me
with your cane Ghe French one) in my hand,
| you can talk as long as you like about your I'M
| dertaking." 1t appears that MOhammed Said
nsei NJ de LesSeps walking stick until his dying
| day, and had it beside him when he breathed his
| last.
A CURIOUS POINT of controversy has been
raised as regards an incident of the late Jenny
Lind's career Groves dictionary, and most
| other musical encyclopedias, German and Eng
| iSh, state that Jenny Lind sang once. and only
| once in Paris, in 1912; and some add that the
defeat she suffered on that occasion induced her
| to make solemn vow never to appear again
| before French audience. An obituary notice
in lie MeHeStret,a generally well-infOrmed paper,
| now denies the whole story. Whatever has
been lately said to the contrary" it writes, sit
| is fact that Jenny Lind neUer appedred before
| the Partisan public, never made her debut at
| the Opera or elsewhere in Paris" "One would
like to know" says the Musical World, "on
| what authority this statement Is made. Also
| why, if it is true Jenny Lind at no subsequent
| time accepted an engagement in Paris; for as
| matter of fact, she never sang there after
| 1892 +"
some successful explorations in New Guinea
have been made by an Australian traveller, Mr.
| w. f. Cuthbertson, who is now on his way back
to Melbourne. The most important work done
was the ascent Of Mount Obree, in the Owen
Stanley range, the third loftiest peak in the
island, and which rises to the height of 10046
feet. Heretofore no expedition had even ap-
preached its base, and the natives were so SUI
perStitious and timid about remaining near the
mountain that the explorer was obliged to re-
turn as soon as he had completed the ascent
Nothing he says, could prevent the natives
from clearing out from the summit with all our
belongings Mr.. CuthbertSon has brought
away some fine pines, rhododendrops and other
specimens. Another exploration party CON
sistng of Mr. Livesey and two Europeans with
two South Sea Islanders are trying to cross the
island starting from Redscar bay near Port
MoreSby.
THE wealthiest people of Dallas. Tex, have
built many costly homes on Oak Cliff Heights,
to the west of the city. Oak Cliff is reached by
splendidly graded boulevards and an elevated
electric railway. About year ago the Dallas
Land and Loan Company purchased $4,000
worth of unmproved real estate at Oak Cliff,
laid it off into large lots as suburban addition
and two weeks ago had public sale, lasting
four days, during which investors mostly
wealthy people, purchased nearly $500 900 worth
of these lots and blocks Among the purchasers
was L. Q. Anderson a negro, who bid in four
of the choicests lots in a body at giltedge
prices The papers were made out and the first
payment offered, when Anderson was identified
the agent of the Texas African Normal Insti-